Improvement in bale-ties



UNTTED STATES PATENT QF'FICE.

IRVING A. KILMER, OF HOWES GAVE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO AUGUSTUS KILMER.

IMPROVEMENT m BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 186,579, dated January 23, 1877 application filed December 23, 1876.

tion of a perspective view of my bale-tie.

This invention relates to bale-ties; and it consists in providing one end of a bale-tie with a loop, and the other end with a pivoted arrow-head-shaped fastening-piece, adapted to engage with said loop, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth. I

In the annexed drawing, A and B designate, respectively, thetwo interlocking ends of a wire bale-tie. On end or part A-is formed -a loop, A, preferably, as shown by winding backward the end of the wire which constistitutes the tie, though other methods of construction may be adopted. The other end, B, of said tie is provided with a pivoted lockingpiece, 0, which is shaped like an arrow-head, having two diverging rearward barbs, c 0

p and a point, 0. The said head or lookingpiece is, preferably, perforated at 0 and at tached to said end B by passing the Wire composing the same through said perforation, and windin g it backward. Any other pivotal arrangement suitable to the purpose designed may, however, be substituted therefor.

To fasten the said bale-tie, the said loop A is first turned on edge, and the pointc of fastening-piece O is passed through the same from 7 the expansion of the substance of the bale I then draws the said ends A and B away from one another. Thus the inside of the front or forward part of loop A is drawn against the rear of one of the barbs, c forcing the forward part of fastening-piece O tightly against the rear part of said loop. This looking or clamp ing action of said loop and fastening piece or head becomes more effectual the more the strain is increased.

Without the pivotal attachment described the introduction of fastening-piece G into loop A could not be effected without bending the wire of the tie, and the subsequent clamping above described would be far less perfect.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is i

1. A bale-tie having a loop at one end, and a pivoted arrowhead-shaped fastening-piece at the other end, substantially as described,

and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a bale-tie, the combination of loop A" on end A with pivoted arrow-headshaped fastening-piece O on" end B, said fasteningpiece being provided with two rearward barbs, c 0 substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

IRVING A. KILMER.

Witnesses:

A. 0. SMITH, W. D. LEWIS. 

